• bryndos@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    I really like those stealth bike racks where they put a car shape on the road facing side so that the cars don’t get upset that they lost a potential parking spot.

    They’ll never see through this clever ruse;. Most cars have pretty poor eyesight; the only way they’ll figure it out is if they honk at it, and it doesn’t respond convincingly.

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      the only way they’ll figure it out is if they honk at it, and it doesn’t respond convincingly.

      Just needs a sound-activated arm showing the middle finger to pop out of the fake window.

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      3 days ago

      Like a decoy to a duck, the problems only start when the car attempts to mate with it

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        No 1 rule of the concrete jungle, when they’re in heat do not honk back even if it’d be *really * funny. And if they’re randy enough to be seeping fluid out of the exhaust pipe , . . . I pray for you.

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      I would legitimately love a study on whether this makes drivers more or less likely to be angry, because anything other than complete neutrality would be hilarious.

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        Haha, yeah. If you like, I can design a really cheap study with a small enough sample size that the chances of 50% are lower than either 0 or 100.

        That’s how science works right, exploit the logistic distribution for the LOLs (and funding from an interest group). Aw shit-bags, this is not sciencemems,